Re: How many colorForthers to screw in a lightbulb -- could it throw some light for those in the darkness?

Jason Kemp <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:38:37 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Ray & all,

That leads me into a question I want to ask all.

Ray St. Marie said the following on 11/03/2008 05:04:
> colorForthers don't screw in lightbulbs.
> First, the get a peice of tungstan together often using peices found
> in old lightbulbs.
> Then, they hold the ends of the tungstan up against the solder that
> accumulates around the socket contacts and turn on the juice hopping
> the tungstan will solder itself in place.
>   

...And then when when someone new stumbles on the colorForth lighting 
approach, he reads that a couple of dozen people got their bulbs working 
in different ways.  So he has a go, and after hours he finds it just 
won't work.  When he asks he is kindly told that, of course, he needs a 
vacuum too (doh) but many different vacuums are readily available on 
obscure ftp sites...

OK, so I'm not a comedian!

But, I have found historical evidence of wikis for colorForth: Sleepless 
Nights, Quartus, Kristopherjohnson.  Is there currently a working one? I 
think there isn't :-(  I mean I have notes that I want to share and it 
seems a waste just to keep my notebook to myself, but I don't want to 
reproduce documentation others have already provided.

Thanks,
Jason